Introduction: Signposts of the Self in Modernity
Part I. The Representational Dilemma
Christopher PRENDERGAST: The Self as a Work of Art: Proust's Scepticism
Paulo DE MEDEIROS: (Re-)Constructing, (Re-)Membering Postcolonial Selves
Aleksandra PODSIADLIK: 'Doing Identity' in Fiction: Identity Construction as a Dialogue between Individuals and Cultural Narratives
Clara ROWLAND: Self-Representation and Temporality: 'Parabasis' in Guimaraes Rosa's Grande Sertao: Veredas
Daniel ROVERS: New Man: Marie Kessels' Inner Portrait of a Writing Self
Gaston FRANSSEN: Good Intentions, Ethical Commitment, and Impersonal Poetry:The Work of Gerrit Kouwenaar
Jan RUPP: 'For-Getting' Plural Selves: Narrative and Identity in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore
Lars BERNAERTS: The Straitjacket of Normality. The Interaction with the Psychiatrist in Maurits Dekker's Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben
Lars DALUM GRANILD: The Self's Struggle for Recognition: August Strindberg and the Other
Marinela FREITAS: Unshaded Shadows: Performances of Gender in Emily Dickinson and Luiza Neto Jorge
Part II. Signalling Identity
Peter BROOKS: The Identity Paradigm
Roland GREENE: The Global I
Davy VAN OERS: Staining the Past with Ink in Lorenzo Da Ponte's Memorie (1830): The Fallacies of Autobiographical 'Writing'
Eli PARK SORENSEN: Between Autobiography and Fiction: Narrating the Self in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Vivir para contarla
Mirjam TRUWANT: The Passion of Lena Christ: From Fictionalized Autobiography to Biographical Novel
Ricardo GIL SOEIRO: Dreams in the Mirror: George Steiner by George Steiner
Part III. Images of the Self Across the Arts
Timothy MATHEWS: Reading W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti
Paula MORAO: The Impossible Self-Portrait
Anna Viola SBORGI: Between Literature and the Visual Arts: Portraits of the Self in William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Fernando Pessoa
Jakob STOUGAARD-NIELSEN: Photography and Shadow-Writing: Henry James's Revisions of the Self in the New York Edition
Patrick VAN ROSSEM: Consumed by the Audience. Inhibition, Fear, and Anxiety in the Oeuvre of Bruce Nauman
Anke BROUWERS: There Was Something about Mary: Mary Pickford's Perfect 'Little American'
Verena-Susanna NUNGESSER: Paint it Red: Death Artistry as a Portrait of the Self
